: All police stations in hill areas in the distrct would be fitted with CCTVs, which would be linked with a modern control room, a top police official said today.
Inaugurating the control room here, Superintendent of Police M R SibiChakravarthy said 15 police stations in the district have CCTV facilities, including five hill area police stations of Burgur, Kadambur, Hassanure, Bhavanisagar and Thalwady. More hill area police stations would be linked with CCTV network soon, he said.
The SP said CCTVs had already been installed in 68 areas in the city. In addition five Speed Zoom cameras had been installed in important junctions, he said.
The SP said the Municipal Corporation has been requested to install 34 CCTVs in the bus stand and also to Railways to set up 48 CCTVs in the railway station. This would reduce criminal activities and also help in crime detection, he said.
He said District Police has received Rs 25 lakh from the Transport Department to purchase and use breath analysers and speed checking devices.
The SP also claimd that crime detection in the district was very high when compared to Coimbatore, Nilgiris, Tirupur, Namakkal, Salem, Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri districts.
